Global warming is making the oceans sicker than ever before, spreading disease among animals and humans and threatening food security across the planet, a major scientific report said on Monday (Sept 5).
Emergency room physicians ran low on tubes needed to reinflate the lungs of patients shot in the chest
In a scene more like a battlefield than an emergency room in a large American city, dozens of people hit by gunfire poured into the Orlando Regional Medical Center in the dark predawn hours of Sunday morning, lining the hallways and filling the operating rooms.
Most of the world is blanketed in artificial light, blocking our view of the stars, according to a new study.
There was now enough evidence to definitively say that the Zika virus could cause unusually small heads and brain damage in infants born to infected mothers.
Myanmar local parliaments have so far agreed to the appointment of chief ministers for 12 regions or states out of 14, according to local parliament sources on Wednesday.
The nation was once racked by a tuberculosis epidemic, one of the worst in which H.I.V. was not the driving force.But officials fought back fiercely.
Panama has reported its first case of birth defectsassociated with the Zika virus, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday
Myanmar's Union Parliament on Tuesday announced 18 nominees of ministers including Aung San Suu Kyi submitted by president-elect U Htin Kyaw.
A new study of 42 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome in French Polynesia offers the strongest evidence to date that the Zika virus can trigger temporary paralysis.
Even infants who appear normal at birth may be at higher risk for mental illnesses later in life if their mothers were infected during pregnancy, many researchers fear.
The World Health Organization declared the Zika virus and its suspected link to birth defects an international public health emergency on Monday, a rare move that signals the seriousness of the outbreak and gives countries new tools to fight it.
There are thousands of these children in Brazil, and scientists fear thousands more might come as the Zika virus leaps across Latin America and the Caribbean.
The World Health Organization rang a global alarm over the Zika virus on Thursday, saying that the disease was “spreading explosively” in the Americas and that as many as four million people could be infected by the end of the year.
More than 11,000 Sydney dental patients may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis because of unhygienic practices at four clinics across the city.
Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday attended a ceremony to commemorate the 148th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the ruling Kuomintang Party and a forerunner of China's anti-feudalism revolution.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's elder brother Mahmud Karzai on Monday announced his support to presidential hopeful Dr. Abdullah Abdullah in the runoff scheduled for June 14.
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